How Tall to Be in the NBA?

How tall do you need to be to play in the

NBA? Well, it depends on what position
you want to play. In this lesson, we will try
to find the average height for all power
forwards by taking a random sample of 5
power forwards.

1. What is the population? all NBA power forwards

What is the sample? the S NBA power forwards selected
2. Refer to the handout that has the heights of all 115 power forwards. Describe the distribution
of height.
tion Ma O
popula approximately normal
tribution Shape: ___________________ 80 087
Mean: ______ 1 519
SD: ______
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dis 3. Take a random sample of 5 power forwards, record their heights, and find the mean of the
sample. Do this three times.

8 1 82 , 81 80 78
Heights: _____________________________
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80 4 Y
Sample mean: _______ .
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81 , 80 , 82 , 78 , 83
Heights: _____________________________ 80 8 : I
Sample mean: _______ .

Heights: _____________________________
80 81 , 81 , 80, 79 80 2 %
Sample mean: _______ .
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4. Add your sample means to the dotplot on the board. Sketch it below.

Sampling Distribution of X

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5. Describe the distribution of sample mean heights.

approximately
Shape: ___________________
normal 80
Mean (estimated): ______ SD (estimated): ______
because the population My M 80 087 = 0.
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distribution ise normal
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6. Use a normal distribution to find the probability of taking a random sample of 5 power
forwards and getting a sample mean less than 79 inches.

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80 087

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 Lesson 7.5 – Sample Means
QuickNotes LT#2 Normal Probabilities
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Check Your Understanding
Every day people watch 1 billion hours of videos on YouTube. That breaks down to every single person on
earth watching YouTube videos for about 8.4 minutes per day. For U.S. teens, in any given day, the
amount of time spent watching YouTube videos is approximately normal with mean 18.5 minutes and
standard deviation 5.3 minutes.
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a. Find the probability that ajn
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randomly chosen U.S. teen watches YouTube for more than 25

minutes in a given day.

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18 5
z =
1 23
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(185 5 3 .
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AREA =
0 1093 .

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Suppose we choose an SRS of 10 U.S. teens. Let x = the mean amount of time spent watching YouTube
videos for the sample.
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b. What are the mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution of x ?

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18 5
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3 .

3/40 -
1 67610410% /
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Millions)
c. Find the probability that the mean amount of time spent watching YouTube for the teens in the
sample exceeds 25 minutes.

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25-18 5 .

=
3 88

NS
1 676
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AREA = 0 0001
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